semperfi71
US Veteran
I thoroughly enjoyed this thread. And the information on Air Force revolvers is interesting.
In my time with the Marines the .38 Special was still issued to pilots and maybe Navy/Marine Corps investigators, the load was the 130 FMJ at a slow speed. I got hold of a few boxes (I ain't sayin' how) and intended to pull the bullets and load them in .357 brass for a "hot load". I couldn't pull the bullets using an inertia bullet puller!
My only experience on USAF bases is that my younger brother was in the AF for four years. So I visited him at Lowry and Lackland. As a kid I swam in a pool at Kelly.
The below information answered a question I had for 31 years as an enroute air traffic controller. I always wondered how "MCO" became the three letter ID for Orlando!
In my time with the Marines the .38 Special was still issued to pilots and maybe Navy/Marine Corps investigators, the load was the 130 FMJ at a slow speed. I got hold of a few boxes (I ain't sayin' how) and intended to pull the bullets and load them in .357 brass for a "hot load". I couldn't pull the bullets using an inertia bullet puller!
My only experience on USAF bases is that my younger brother was in the AF for four years. So I visited him at Lowry and Lackland. As a kid I swam in a pool at Kelly.
The below information answered a question I had for 31 years as an enroute air traffic controller. I always wondered how "MCO" became the three letter ID for Orlando!
